Sept 18: GNY Cinema, Performance by Trisha Baga

Described by the artist as both “an interdimensional romance” and “a
non-fiction Filipino folk tale,” Trisha Baga’s Madonna y el Niño combines and
reshapes ephemera of the iconic global celebrity—photos, official tour videos,
DVD menus, interviews—with references to the El Niño weather phenomenon and the
artist’s own performances. She visibly alters numerous media artifacts off her
computer’s desktop, both in real time and through recorded clips, at times
physically inserting herself into the beam of her projector or signaling her
manipulations via live feeds from her laptop’s camera. The results are dense
audio-visual palimpsests, drawing out the dissonant strangeness of Madge’s
later career. Baga has called this collision of cultural detritus “a metaphor
for changes in the pop landscape brought about by digitization and the
internet,” and it also operates in more ineffable registers, like cryptic
transmissions from an aging star.